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Why I came West / Rick Bass.

Why I came West / Rick Bass.

Why I came West / Rick Bass.

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Why I came West / Rick Bass.

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Full title

Why I came West / Rick Bass.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

Date

2008.

Call Numbers

N333.78209/3

Record Identifier

74VMyg4GqpkO

MMS ID

991002118229702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

238 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents

Landscape and imagination -- Meat -- The question -- The community of glaciers -- Wood -- Oil -- The poison of language -- Fourteen gardens -- Who we are, what we do -- Bear spray stories -- Rebecca's "My hair is on fire" lobster soup -- Threshold -- How you can help.

Publication information

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

2008.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass describes his own t...

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Full title

Why I came West / Rick Bass.

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Author / Creator

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Other version (online)

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N333.78209/3

Record Identifier

74VMyg4GqpkO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMyg4GqpkO

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ISBN

0618596755

9780618596751

DDC

333.782092

MMS ID

991002118229702626

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